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My High School Wanted to Expand Opportunities for Low-Income Students. Did It Limit Them Instead? My High School Wanted to Expand Opportunities for Low-Income Students. Did It Limit Them Instead?
A well-meaning effort to increase educational equity in Utah might not be helping those most in need. But there are ways to make these programs more accessible.
Feb 3, 2025 / StudentNation / Adelaide Parker
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What the Next DNC Chair Must Do to Save the Party What the Next DNC Chair Must Do to Save the Party
Yes, pushing back against Donald Trump is essential. But to do that, the Democrats must turn themselves into a fighting force for economic justice.
Jan 31, 2025 / John Nichols
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Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Doesn’t Make Sense. It Didn’t the First Time Either. Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Doesn’t Make Sense. It Didn’t the First Time Either.
The ban will only serve to create chaos and risk the health and safety of Americans.
Jan 31, 2025 / Michele Goodwin
![Roberto Marquez from Dallas, Texas, sets up a makeshift memorial for the victims of the crash of an American Airlines flight and a Blackhawk helicopter in Arlington, Virginia.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DCAMemorial.jpg)
Trump’s Racist Rants Conceal the Right’s Air Safety Failures Trump’s Racist Rants Conceal the Right’s Air Safety Failures
In the aftermath of the worst air crash in 25 years, the president stokes ugly resentments and conspiracy-mongering
Jan 31, 2025 / Joseph A. McCartin
![A DC community organizer holds a sign for the Light Brigade for Reproductive Justice: Your Vote is Your Voice outside of the US Supreme Court on October 17, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-2179041681.jpg)
Symbolic Legislation Will Not Get Us Free Symbolic Legislation Will Not Get Us Free
If the Democrats are truly serious about protecting reproductive freedom, they must rise above reactive politics.
Jan 31, 2025 / Larada Lee-Wallace
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Trump Is Hitting the Gas on Our Path to Planetary Destruction Trump Is Hitting the Gas on Our Path to Planetary Destruction
The planet’s decline is already deeply underway. Trump’s clearly about to lend it a remarkably helping hand
Jan 31, 2025 / Tom Engelhardt
![Still leaning left?: Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-hearing.jpg)
Senate Democrats Are Attacking Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons Senate Democrats Are Attacking Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons
Preferring to defend spy agencies and line up behind the hawkish consensus, the bipartisan elite ignores the director of national intelligence nominee’s rampant Islamophobia.
Jan 31, 2025 / Jeet Heer
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Declaration: Who Gets Redacted ? Declaration: Who Gets Redacted ?
A revolutionary document and evidence of many contradictions in the history of the United States.
Jan 31, 2025 / OppArt / Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titis Kaphar
![Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Monday, January 20, 2025.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bigtech2.jpg)
The Social Critic Who Predicted Big Tech’s Dark Turn The Social Critic Who Predicted Big Tech’s Dark Turn
Theodore Roszak and the perils of technocracy.
Jan 31, 2025 / Peter Richardson and Michael J. Kramer